25 May 2021Politics
Certain words make you feel like you belong to another time. You think you’re at home in the present, but then you’re forced to think again. For me, one such word is ‘antifa’. For the entirety of my childhood, youth and adult life the term ‘fascist’ was the most injurious of insults: the shortened epithet – ‘fascio’ in Italian, ‘facho’ in French – recalling the similar abbreviation that gives us the word
Nazi. Then, all of a sudden, ‘anti-fascist’ became a slur, repeatedly used by Donald Trump as a synonym for ‘left-wing terrorist’. My generation came of age in a ‘republic built on anti-fascism’, where – unlike today – that orientation was taken for granted. Now, the term has become a slogan for the subversive left, most commonly associated with black bloc anarchists, portrayed in the media as the specular image of the alt-right.
Courtesy El Deseo D.A. S.L.U., photos by Iglesias Mas
Whatâs your earliest recollection of watching a Pedro Almodóvar film, and do you have any favourites among his works?
I remember seeing
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and feeling this enormous sense of relief. Here was a filmmaker making films about Europe and about people and a milieu that I recognised entirely â and, at the same time, a contemporary artist whose reference to the cultural landscape of cinema makes him heir to so many great directors through film history, especially those great masters who have focused their narratives and their atmosphere on the lives and passions of women. Pedro was putting onto a global screen a sensibility and a vernacular which was close to the underground world I was living in with Derek Jarman in London in the â80s and early â90s. He was always our Spanish cousin, very dear and greatly cherished as a fellow traveller with brilliant movesâ¦
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Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton. Photograph: à El Deseo/Nico Bustos
The director and actor have finally achieved âa far-fetched dreamâ by working together on his first film in English, The Human Voice. They talk about their mutual admiration, filming in lockdown â and how falling in love can destroy your sense of humour
Fri 14 May 2021 01.00 EDT
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For more than 30 years, the film-maker Pedro Almodóvar has had a voice in his head â The Human Voice, that is. In Jean Cocteauâs monologue, first performed in 1930, a woman goes to pieces during a telephone conversation with her soon-to-be-ex lover. The audience hears only one side of the exchange, lending her the upper hand in the drama at the precise moment she has been robbed of everything else.
Rome park and mural dedicated to Roman actress Anna Magnani
11 May, 2021
Lucamaleonte mural features three portraits of Nannarella .
Anna Magnani, the much-loved Roman actress who died in 1973, now has a park and large-scale mural in her honour in the north-eastern outskirts of Rome.
The park in the Tiburtino III district was inaugurated by Lazio governor Nicola Zingaretti on 10 May in a project co-financed with social housing body Ater Roma.
Anna Magnani (1908-1973)
The mural by Lucamaleonte, one of Rome s leading street artists, features three portraits of Magnani who was known for her passionate portrayals of characters, matched by her own fiery personality.